How to run Dungeon Keeper 2 in Windows 7- 1) Install the game
- 2) Patch it to v 1.7.
- 3) Crack the game, find the crack at Gamecopyworld and ignorer the instructions about using Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit, (you need to own a copy of the game and check the legality of cracking a purchased game in your country)
- 4) Right-click DKII.exe and select the "Compatibility" tab, select "Windows XP (Service Pack 3)" in the "Compatibility mode" section and finally check "Run this program as an administrator" in "Privilege Level".
- 5) Copy D:\Data\Movies into C:\DK2\Data, where it is assumed that you game cd is in drive D and you have installed the game to C:\DK2. You can now watch the cinematic without the cd.
- 6) Run Dungeon Keeper 2 using DKII.exe
High-resolution tweakingYou can run the game in custom resolutions by running regedit from the start menu, then navigate to
- "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Bullfrog Productions Ltd\Dungeon Keeper II\Configuration\Video"
where you can change the fields "Screen Height" and "Screen Width", remember to hit the "Decimal" button before editing these fields. You need to make trial and error to find a resolution that fits you.
Unmessing the camera in high resolutionsI have a display with a native resolution of 1920x1080, but setting the height and width to that messes up the camera too much, so I have choosen to run in 1600x900, which my display actually still displays in its native resolution, so it sill looks nice, and the camera is not all to messed up. You can tweak the camera by selecting one of the 3 user camera's and then using these buttons:
- User Camera 1 - F4
- User Camera 2 - F5
- User Camera 3 - F6
- Camera Mouse Rotate - X + MOUSE LEFT/ RIGHT
- Camera Mouse Zoom - Z + MOUSE UP/ DOWN
- Roll Right (Free Camera / Set User Camera) - CTRL + DELETE
- Pitch Down (Free Camera / Set User Camera) - CTRL + END
- Pitch Up (Free Camera / Set User Camera) - CTRL + HOME
- Roll Left (Free Camera / Set User Camera) - CTRL + INSERT
- Yaw Right (Free Camera / Set User Camera) - CTRL + PG DN
- Yaw Left (Free Camera / Set User Camera) - CTRL + PG UP
Even more tweakingYou can tweak even more settings
using DK2Tweaks, which is just a program which calls DKII.exe using various commandline flags.